Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
LAND OF WOMEN-Baroness Katherina von Dombrowski-Little, Brown ($2.50). Slowly paced historical novel of 19th-Century Paraguay, dealing with the love affair of a dictator who led his country into a war that reduced the population from...
...game is a twilight affair scheduled for 6 o'clock. A return encounter will be held at Holy Cross on Saturday...
...also unmistakable talent and power. Notable was American Justice, a vivid picture of a prostitute who had been lynched by hooded Ku-Kluxers. St. Louis and environs were there in fat wheat fields, freight sidings, Second and Biddle Streets, Missouri River. Chimed the critics: ''An auspicious affair, uneven in quality but interesting throughout and full of promise...
...does such a charge, if true, concern Harvard's acceptance? Her interest is in John Reed, not the committee, and this would be true if the latter had been composed of bond salesmen. We would suggest to Mr. Fish that the only legitimate point of attack in the whole affair is the portrait itself. Is it good enough? As a classmate of the original, his opinion of it should be worth something. --New York Herald-Tribune...